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[HTC Excalibur] MrBraun:
Just a little one things NRG:

1) Into jogger settings, the options Enable scrolling sound don't have effect!

and, can u add a slim chome panel? :)

Tnx for this great ROM! :)
[HTC Excalibur] thousandlegs:
I do like the look of those icons.

http://www.smartphone-freeware.com/download-rinku-iconbar-for-wm6-1.html
[HTC Excalibur] EasyTiger6x13:
Locking up

So I'm in my second day in and the phones starting to lock up to the point where i have to take the battery out and restart now.

Anyone else have the same thing?
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Yea, I've had that happen a few times when I was messing with Comm Manager and rying to get BT to work. Any way to take the drivers and apps from Kavana's WM6.1 ROM for BT and Wifi? They seem to work flawlessly.
[HTC Excalibur] vinapco:
1/ wifi in com, weather on home screen and HTC album do not work.

2/ my phone is working seem to be slowly
[HTC Excalibur] uansari1:
Thought I'd ask here, since NRG strongly suggest hard spl'ing our phones to make it easier if a flash goes bad. I finally got the hard spl to go through by copying the nbh into the normal ROM folder we all use to flash (and removed the RUU_signed.nbh). It went through without the 260 or 270 error. Now every time I soft-reset, there's red text that shows up on the first screen...is there any way to disable that? Isn't really a problem, I'm just curious more than anything else.

Also, does anyone know which file is the green WM6.1 flash screen? I'd like to replace that with the black HTC logo screen from the Rose ROM...
[HTC Excalibur] DonutYankee:
I can confirm the YouTube and Album bugs. So far, Internet Explorer can't load up some sites. The home page is an error page (and no option to change error page). It also won't follow through on some Google searches. Even after running the ActivateWeather cab and re-setting, the Weather tab still does not work. The clock on the top bar is a 24-hours clock and not AM/PM, with no visible option to change to AM/PM. And finally, Windows Live seems to be missing.

But as this is still a work in progress, I can honestly say this is a terrific ROM. Great work as always.
[HTC Excalibur] hoactaithien:
some bugs had found!

1. HTC album don't work.

2. sometime my phone is hang when press "menu" softkey in "missed calls menu" and "contacts menu"

3. T9 setting don't work. I can't change some setting. and some key on keyboard is changed, exp:@ to &, = to !.

4."input options" in "text Messages" don't work. when i set it, it only display "z" on screen.

5.chome weather don't work!

6.althought speed of system is more,but it is not smooth.

I hope the rom man will have a better rom.

Best regard!
[HTC Excalibur] iDASH:
I just wanted to say that other than kavanna you are the only excalibur rom cooker who has done anything original not just remade someone elses work and i think this ROM has potential to be the best on ever cooked up for the dash cant wait for the final product and i will most definately be buying you a beer sometime thanks NRG.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Anyone want an actual HTC SNAP?

http://cgi.ebay.com/HTC-Snap-GSM-WCDMA_W0QQitemZ170323853568QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCell_Phones?hash=item170323853568&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A7%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

eBay Item #170323853568.
[HTC Excalibur] killa-mckilla:
not really a problem

so far the only bug i have is the HTC album,

the comm manager worked fine once i deleted to extra "m"

for youtube, i just went to youtube mobile and re-downloaded the cab

all of my dll's are working fine

i use mini panels with ODSHOW weather, it's all working great

my bluetooth took about 5 minutes to load up the first time i turned it on, but has been fine since that initial hangup

ive noticed that if i switched homescreens, once i go back to my previous homescreen, i will have to reset my basehue.

internet explorers homepage doesnt work, but all the favorites do. this isnt really a big deal if you are adding an MSPIE link on one of the panels. really is only a problem if u are using internet explorer from the start menu, but im sure there's a registry mod for it.

the start page background is really easy to change.

the automatic connection setting are a waste of time. the phone see's im using AT&T and configures it, but i had to manually input all the data anyways (was expecting this anyways)

havent gotten a chance to see the names of the splash screen and splash gif to change them, as i dont see rosco on here.. but im gonna download/install one tonight

i hate how the HTC Home gets the cool audio manager in a panel, but the sliding panels gets windows.. not hard to make my own.. but still thought id throw it out there

great ROM though. i had been switching back and forth between rose and kavana and had finally got all my panels how i wanted them... the saw this ROM and had to have it

keep up the great work :)
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
I've been trying to figure out how to get rid of the ugly green splash screen. I figured it out with the Rose ROM obviously.. but.. I... forgot. LOL

Believe it or not, Kavana's is a hackjob/remake of the htc brightpoint ROM as well, with some 6.1 SYS components from the emulator image. Hehe

So far, my ROMs and AlekSS's ROMs are truly built from the ground up :)
[HTC Excalibur] killa-mckilla:
looks like the splash is in the \windows\oemstartup.dll
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Negative on that... :)
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Same here. the only major bugs I'm down to is HTCAlbum not working at all, menu soft key sometimes freezes up, and Bluetooth not starting up. I have to reboot the phone 5 times sometimes for it to start. Other than that, the ROM is very smooth, quick, and responsive. Love it. Awaiting the next release NRG! :)
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
We'll fix it. I'm releasing my 6.5 based ROM for the TP tomorrow, so after THAT I'll have a lot more time to devote to this ROM and fix the remaining bugs :)
[HTC Excalibur] orb3000:
Great to know mate!!

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Ok, more info... The Menu soft key will ONLY hang the phone when Bluetooth and Comm Manager don't start up. When Comm Manager is working and BT is up, the phone is VERY stable. Just sometimes takes 3-5 reboots to get Comm Manager working. I'm trying to get HTCAlbum to work with several methods. If I find the fix, I will let you know.
[HTC Excalibur] uansari1:
Doesn't this have to do with wifiinit.exe still running in the processes? Seems if you just leave the phone alone after a soft-reset and not use the menu's till wifiinit does its thing, then there's less of an issue. Of course that sounds like a PITA, but IIRC, the Rose ROMs have the same issue... although I should add that after using your 96dpi mod, which switches to the other CommManager, it seemed more stable and loaded up faster.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Yea, it does. I have waited a long time before, still hangs. Rose ROMS have the same issue. Weird. I just hard locked my phone messing with DLL's haha. Time to reflash and try a different pagepool value.
[HTC Excalibur] MrBraun:
Seems that battery discharge quicker ... anyone can confirm this?

tnx in advace for the replyes! :)
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
On the contrary, battery life on my Dash has increased by at least 20%. I am even overclocking to 255Mhz. Just hang in there and let NRGZ28 work his magic on the next release.

By the way, I changed the pagepool to 6MB from 9MB and the phone got noticably slower. Looks like a happy middle would be 8-10MB. I will test and let you guys know.
[HTC Excalibur] ratstrangler:
I've been using this 'In Anger' since Wednesday morning without issue.

In addition to normal 'phone' duties, I used it as an auction catalogue on Wed, (4+ hours of backlit Word doc reading), WiFi on and off at known access points to read news, collect email etc.

Yesterday, (Thu), used BT GPS and Memory Map, heavily backlit, for a couple of hours and all was well.

Had to plug it into a laptop for a short 're-volting' session before work this morning as things were getting a bit low, down to about 12%.

An accurate battery indicator on the start page would be a bonus now I think about it.

I reinstated WiFiInit.exe to the Startup folder but left the CommManager reg entry renamed and after it finally started the first time, I have had no problems restarting the phone and all is up and running in about a minute. More accurate timing available if it will help.

I have restarted over 20 times now without any lockup and wonder if WiFiInit.exe needs one good start under its' belt to sort its' **** out and then starts to behave itself?

I don't think the battery drain is too bad, certainly not something to worry about. I usually only use the skinny batt as I have one of those hard cases, (a lifesaver on 3 occasions now), and the biggun don't fit. :eek:

Even so, 2 days of fairly power-intensive use between zaps is okay isn't it?

Surely.

I mean, low voltage electricity is fairly widely available these days. We've even got some in Wales. :rolleyes:

I haven't taken the batt out and started from 'cold' yet to see if WiFiInit.exe starts acting the Goat again, maybe someone else has? If not, I'll try it and see what happens but I am a bit loathe in case it shoots itself in the head again. :p

I'm afraid I don't know enough about the OS to do any geeky tests, (all workstation and client/server stuff I'm afraid), but I am prepared to follow instructions, from somebody who knows stuff, to help test this potentially excellent piece of coding.

So. There you are. My experiences of this new ROM over the last 3 days.

I am very happy with it. Any further development will be gratefully pounced on and used to death.

NRGZ28, thanks very much for your time on this.
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Well I got the WiFi fixed but bluetooth wont come on. Haha... Will have to try another set of BT drivers. Will most likely upload a new version tomorrow.
[HTC Excalibur] s1l3nt:
what is inner circle? and is there a cab file for it?
[HTC Excalibur] ratstrangler:
It seems to be a mail app that pulls a sub-list of addresses, friends etc, out of your general inbox.

Works okay too.
[HTC Excalibur] bigies:
THanks so much NRGZ28 for a very good work :P Can't wait for the new fixed version
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Random question about CAB's and ROM files. When you run a CAB installation that overwrites a file in ROM, where does it put the original file for an uninstall? Any idea??
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
I believe that gets stored somewhere in Appdata :)
[HTC Excalibur] EasyTiger6x13:
Menu Hanging

So the only reallll problem I have with the rom is the menu button constantly always hangs in a folder, I can live with out the comm manager which I know will get fixed and without the wifi and blue tooth because well I just don't have a data plan or a blue tooth head set.

Also I've stated this before is allllllotttttttttttttt of programs seem to run in the background and I have to open celetask to close out of them, is there anyway to fix this so that when you exit out of a program or folder it actually exits out and doesnt run in the back ground?

Otherwise extreemmmmmeeeellllyyy beautiful rom, if you can get all the bugs worked out of this one then maybe no Shadow Rom? Lol, good work NRG.:)
[HTC Excalibur] vwgtiron:
Things To Include??

NRG the OMAP overclock wasn't holding for me. Also I was getting constant lock ups with activesync to my business exchange server. Also is it possible to include an app to sync with the T-mobile address book. I wanted to thank you also for all the Roms over the last year. Great work also love the weather app. Finally when I was using internet explorer I couldn't see the cursor on the screen. I was constantly having to guess where I was.
[HTC Excalibur] vwgtiron:
"So the only reallll problem I have with the rom is the menu button constantly always hangs in a folder, I can live with out the comm manager which I know will get fixed"

you do know that you just need to rename it, with the chome config tool, just go to the page and take out one of the "M"'s
[HTC Excalibur] EasyTiger6x13:
yeah I know but I don't need to use it to begin with for the above listed reasons so its not like I'm in a rush to do so. Thank you tho :)
[HTC Excalibur] vwgtiron:
No problem
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Seems like the Menu key hanging only happens when Bluetooth doesn't startup. Or may have to do with Wifiinit.exe hanging up as well. When BT is on, the phone seems MUCH happier and fast. I know NRGZ28 is working on the BT starting up issues. Looking forward to testing the new release! Tonight?? :)
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Mmm... not tonight. Busy with stuff around the house right now. Probably Monday is when I'll be working on the problem again. I got it bootup fine with wifiinit working as expected, by using older drivers from the Tmobile ROM. BUT, bluetooth wont start at all, which is a big no no. I'll see what I can do about it :)
[HTC Excalibur] uansari1:
Thought I'd ask here, since NRG strongly suggest hard spl'ing our phones to make it easier if a flash goes bad. I finally got the hard spl to go through by copying the nbh into the normal ROM folder we all use to flash (and removed the RUU_signed.nbh). It went through without the 260 or 270 error. Now every time I soft-reset, there's red text that shows up on the first screen...is there any way to disable that? Isn't really a problem, I'm just curious more than anything else.

NRG, and idea how to uninstall the hardspl?
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
If i mem correctly it's only a semi hard-spl and can be removed by flashing your stock ROM, i too didn't like the red writing and removed.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
How we looking toward a next release?? I'm ready for some flashin! :)
[HTC Excalibur] ratstrangler:
Still a bit cold for that sort of thing in Wales. :eek:
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Never too cold in LA. :) Ahhhhhhhhh...
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
Haven't had the time to mess with this ROM today... but don't worry, whenever I have a working solution I will post a new ROM for sure. Gotta take care of my supporters in the Raphael forum. They donate... so they get priority support :) Not to say that I expect anything from anybody, but I can't let those guys down to work on an old device, such as an excalibur.. hehe :)
[HTC Excalibur] skyler17:
Windows mobile live?

Excellent looking ROM. But it doesn't come with windows live mobile? When I try to set up my Hotmail account it sends me to the windows live website to look at it through the horrible internet explorer.
[HTC Excalibur] uansari1:
Download the Windows Live cab... search and you'll find it.
[HTC Excalibur] skyler17:
Activesync

Yes, I fixed that, and got push email :)

Note: by default the ROMs time zone is not set to auto-correct its self, so I had my time and date all messed up which gave me the error "faulty certificate" for windows live. Fixed it and all was good though.

By the way the link is: http://www.windowsliveformobile.com/en-us/windowsmobile/default.aspx?ocid=WMDownloadsPC

So yes, next problem... How do I get activesync to work? It simpily will not recognize my computer (and vice versa). With other roms there is normally a spot under settings to enable "advanced network functionality" and messing with this always fixed my woes but this rom does not have that setting anywhere.

Has anyone got activesync working? What am I doing wrong?
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
None of us cheapos donate?? Nothings free, ppl. NRG's gotta eat too... Once I get some cash in my PayPal acct, I'll hook an XDA brutha out... ;-)
[HTC Excalibur] cswroe:
Just threw a few bucks your way....there will be more after my next ROM fix........:p
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
uansari bought me a beer when I released it, but that's about it. Hehe Don't worry about that though, you can tell I definitely did this for fun. I mean... who in their right mind would make a rom for the excalibur from scratch ?! LOL

Even Kavana took another ROM and modified it with his celecommand crap, to release his 6.1 ROM. All other ROMs from then on have been cooked that way, which in my opinion is a hack job. This one and my Rose ROMs are the only ROMs cooked the "microsoft" way... "the way roms are made for all other devices on xda" way. Hehe :) But I digress...

Thank you :)
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
I must admit, the ROMS's you cook are very smooth and stable. You should hold a Windows Mobile chef's seminar at the Vegas Convention Center. Hah! I bet the turnout would be descent. At least for peeps within 300 miles or so. :) Good work.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
NRG, for the next release, can you also adjust the registry settings (or whatever) for SMS the same as on the Rose and Kavana ROM? The behavior is a tad different on this SNAP ROM whereas when you get a new txt and open it, it takes you to SMS message and highlights it but not directly to the thread reply entry box on the bottom. Not sure if this is just some registry tweaking or if it's built in. Did I just make any sense at all?
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
You made sense, but I'm not sure I can control that. I will look at it though... It's something that's happening on the newer releases lately, and its usually fixed by replacing htmlnote.dll Not sure if that will work with a smartphone, but worth a shot :) If you wanna do it now, go search the PPC threads (u coudl start in the raph rom dev forum ) and there's cabs with the older htmlnote.dll floating around. Try that for now :)
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
Thanks. YOU DA MAN! That was it. The weird thing is that even though I have my Windows settings on my PC to show ALL files even hidden and system files, htmlnote.dll didn't show up in \Windows. But when I tried to copy the new one in, it asked to overwrite the old one, weird. Any ideas?

So what I did was took the htmlnote.dll from Kavana's dump, signed it, and copied it to \Windows on the SNAP ROM. And it works great. I am attaching here for anyone else who wants it and feel free to use it in your next build.

Now I just have to find the DLL that contains the bitmap resource for the new looking topbar icons in the SNAP ROM so I can build a new 96dpi app. Cheers!!
[HTC Excalibur] sincap:
This rom is good visulation but not compatible with my dash :(

Delayed startup,Commanager, internet explorer and some application do not work even so thanks NRGZ28 for your work ...
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
DOH! If you take the time to read the thread of even the very first post, you'll see this ROM is not bug free YET. :rolleyes:
[HTC Excalibur] theeunfetteredmind:
Well...

Not complaining, but I think people expect a ROM to be a bit more functional when it is released than this is and for the chef to be a little more excited about his/ her work enough to correct errors in a more punctual time than saying more or less: "when I get around to it", "..because you people don't donate (It would seem that regardless you'd want to support your own hard work to completion)". I know your avator icon "House" (although not a real person), his character always works meticulously to completion!

I haven't tried your ROM, but I will soon with another update or three and WHEN I do I will support you!!! This is the MOST aesthetically pleasing ROM I've ever seen for this phone and also supersedes all the other smartphone interfaces to me!! :eek:
[HTC Excalibur] uansari1:
I'm sure if NRG didn't have a family and a job, plus other ROMs that he's supporting, he'd be all over fixing this one. However, given the fact that he has a life outside of XDA, I'm fine with his level of work with this ROM till now. Of course, we all always have the option of using another ROM, learning to make the adjustments to existing ROMs (such as this one), or even just leaving our phones as they are from the factory. As I'm sure you understand this and feel the same way, I'm very glad to hear you're not complaining.
[HTC Excalibur] theeunfetteredmind:
Hmm...I have a family, I have a job, I play with phones as a hobby, but this isn't about me or your bias opinion. NRG is a grown man, I doubt he needs you defending him least of all when he wasn't attacked. All chefs fit your listed criteria for one, and they also have cooked several different ROMs and supported them! (but typically post like they actually LIKE the people they expect to pay them which was my point!) :rolleyes:
[HTC Excalibur] cswroe:
The Excalibur is a great phone, but unfortunately will be the way of the dinosaur in no time. I am not not the least bit surprised to find that he is not putting this ROM very high on the priority list. This is more the hobby ROM than anything. For someone to take a phone that was probably working just fine, then flash it to a first version release and complain about issues that are all ready mentioned just show that anyone can flash their phone. If they can't read a post, wiki, sticky, or perform a search they should NOT be flashing their phone to begin with.

Same stuff different day around here.
[HTC Excalibur] uansari1:
Your points are well taken, but I wasn't defending just NRG... As you said, the facts I mentioned apply to all chefs...and all of them are doing this for nothing, essentially. Regardless, we have to expect that they're going to prioritize based on some relevant factor, in order to balance normal life with ROM cooking, and whether or not a particular group is actually contributing money toward ROM development sounds reasonable. Anyway, I too hope that this ROM is updated sooner rather than later...
[HTC Excalibur] NRGZ28:
And it will be updated. But figuring out why wifi and bt aren't working very well with the new 21040 core is not easy as it may seem. I will work on it a little more tonight and see what happens...

As far as the whole debate whether I need to support to this ROM: it's obvious I AM supporting it, otherwise I would have posted and left. And you're right that this is more of a "hobby ROM". I'm very active in the raphael forum as that is one of my main devices. So you can expect that I will give that priority. This place is a ghost town lately anyway, since I'm sure most of us moved away from the excalibur to more powerful phones. As soon as the HTC Snap was leaked (and I made it available to the rest of the smartphone chefs) I decided it's time to refresh the excalibur with the newest stuff available for smartphones. It turns out it's not perfect on the first try... Oh well... That's software development in general. General knowledge about smartphone ROM building is MUCH LESS compared to cooking ROMs for the PPCs, so it makes it harder. Anyway, enough babbling... I'm gonna go try some different drivers and see how the wifi and bt respond.
[HTC Excalibur] ookba:
EnergyROM 1.0 SP1 CAB 050609

Hey all! So, seeing as NRGZ28 has a life and is busy, I took the liberty to compile a CAB that contains several fixes and updates making the ROM a tad more stable and usable. :D

Note: I recommend running the cab right after a reboot, after a hard reset, or right after a new flash. The reason is because it overwrites files that may be open during daily use, etc. Run it on "EnergyROM Series 1.0 21040 Build 42709" ONLY.

Here is what the Service Pack 1 CAB contains:

- Fix for ClockOnTop (12 hour format)

- Fix for SMS new msg alert behavior

- Updated version of CeleTask

- Fix for Comm Manager access from Quick List

- Fix for IE Home Page (still cannot change homepage)

- For a YouTube fix, Google and download YouTube.cab for SmartPhone (works great)

- HTC Album fixed and attached as HTC Album Excalibur.cab (works great)

If you want to change your IE home page, you can edit HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AboutURLs\home (REG_SZ).

Still problematic in this ROM:

- Bluetooth doesn't always start up and takes 4-5 reboots to start

- At the same time, Wifiinit.exe hangs and "menu" softkey will not work (hangs) in most apps

- Cannot set Home Page in IE from IE "options"

Try it! Let me know. Every ROM and phone are different so if something goes wrong, you can always uninstall it. And, of course, I am NOT responsible if you brick or mess up your phone in any way. Since this is a Release Canidate ROM, it is recommended for use on a "test device". :p

Huge props to master chef NRGZ28 for cooking up this awesome ROM to begin with!!